BILL NUMBER: SCR 12	CHAPTERED  07/08/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   55
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 8, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 30, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   MARCH 11, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Johannessen

                        FEBRUARY 8, 1999

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 12--Relative to POW Recognition
Day.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 12, Johannessen.  POW Recognition Day.
   This measure would designate April 9, 1999, as POW Recognition Day
in California.




   WHEREAS, Men and women have long answered our nation's call to
duty and undertaken their mission as members of the United States
Armed Forces; and
   WHEREAS, Our military personnel have gone to battle in countries
far and near to defend the ramparts of liberty and resist the agents
of tyranny; and
   WHEREAS, Hostile forces throughout the world continue to subvert
the political and economic freedom for which American soldiers have
sacrificed their lives; and
   WHEREAS, There were some 142,257 Americans captured and interned
under deplorable conditions during World War I, World War II, the
Korean Conflict, the Vietnam Conflict, the Persian Gulf War, and the
Somalian Conflict; and
   WHEREAS, Most of our military personnel have returned home as
heroes and proud veterans, but tragically another 92,457 other
Americans were lost in combat, and their remains were never
recovered; and
   WHEREAS, Each year, citizens throughout America join in
observances to honor and recognize former American prisoners of war,
and to remember those individuals still unaccounted for, so that we
may rededicate ourselves to finding a resolution to their status that
will allow their families to have the peace they deserve; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates April 9,
1999, as POW Recognition Day in California; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
